The Canada FASD Conference is pleased to announce the 2025 call for abstract submissions will open February 3, 2025. The application deadline is Monday, March 31, 2025 at 23:59 EDT.
FASD is a complex, far reaching and consequential. It takes a wide range of perspectives and collective efforts to drive the needed change to shape a brighter future for people with FASD, their families and communities. Focusing on the innovation, past experiences, and connections will help us to visualize a positive future for people with FASD and a safe space to address prevention of prenatal alcohol use. Using the evidence to initiate the action will empower all of us. Focusing on the subthemes will improve pregnancy outcomes, the lives of individuals with FASD, their families, and communities will help to meet the challenges of an ever-changing environment.
The conference theme – Shaping the Future of FASD: From Evidence to Action – is inclusive of all voices in the field of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and prevention of the disability. We welcome submissions from research, policy, programs, and practice and submissions from those with personal experience.
More information about subsidies for student presenters and attendees with lived experience will be available soon.
Submission Requirements for Research/Policy/Practice Abstracts
Presentation Formats
- Oral Presentations (20 minutes)
- Oral Presentation (90 minutes)
- Workshops (90 minutes)
- Poster
Presentation Themes
Abstracts are welcome in all areas of FASD and FASD Prevention. The conference will focus on the following sub themes:
- Current trends and new issues
- Wellness including resiliency, physical health, healthy approaches
- Mental health and comorbidities
- Therapeutic approaches
- Truth and reconciliation and Indigenous approaches
- At-risk or priority populations (e.g., youth, incarcerated persons, older adults, people who are homeless, new Canadians, LGBTQ2+, etc.)
- Stigma and discrimination
- Innovative and novel approaches to delivering care/supports/services
- The continuum of care: promoting health and services across the lifespan
- Building capacity
- Prevention
- Women’s health
- Alcohol policy
- Basic science and biomarkers research
Presenters will need to clearly establish the applicable use of their work for a mixed audience of academics, professionals, service providers, policy makers, and those with lived experience.
How to submit your abstract
Submit your abstract online through the Academic Abstract portal before March 31, 2025.
Submission Requirements for Personal Experience Abstracts
Presentation Format
We encourage different types of submissions such as posters, artwork, storytelling, or other types of oral presentation.
Presentation Themes
Your idea should be relevant to the conference theme: Shaping the Future of FASD: From Evidence to Action. It should have a message that can be presented clearly to the audience. Consider an idea or message that could improve their work and understanding of people with FASD. If you are a person with FASD, helping others understand the pros and cons of your experience could be helpful. Example ideas include:
- The challenges and successes of providing support to those who have FASD;
- The use and impact of different types of medication;
- Managing wellness strategies, especially during COVID-19;
- Substance use and mental health;
- Stigma and discrimination;
- Employment, housing or educational success
- Alternative or new approaches to supporting people with FASD.
How to submit your abstract
Submit your abstract online through the Personal Experience Abstract portal before March 31, 2025.
